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The Lyrid meteor shower will soon peak: Here are the best nights and times to see it

Swapna Krishna

On Saturday, November 18, SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful launch vehicle in the world, will have its second test flight. During a 20-minute...

On Earth, it mostly rains water. But according to a new discovery published in Nature , it may rain sand on other planets. WASP-107b is a...

Our solar system was a violent place 4.5 billion years ago. As planetesimals were forming out of a disk of gas and dust surrounding our sun, they...

On Saturday, October 14, people across North and South America will experience an annular, or “ring of fire” solar eclipse. An annular eclipse is...

This morning, at approximately 8:52 a.m MT, a container with surface samples from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu successfully landed on Earth. The...